Security News
A ransomware attack in January at Frederick Health Medical Group, a major healthcare provider in Maryland, has led to a data breach affecting nearly one million patients. [...]
Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) is warning that threat actors stole the personal data of 5.5 million patients in a cyberattack earlier this month. [...]
Blue Shield of California disclosed it suffered a data breach after exposing protected health information of 4.7 million members to Google's analytics and advertisement platforms. [...]
Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) has released a statement informing it suffered a data breach where hackers stole sensitive information of roughly 1.6 million people from its systems. [...]
Ascension, one of the largest private U.S. healthcare systems, is notifying over 5.6 million patients and employees that their personal and health data was stolen in a May cyberattack linked to...
Healthcare software as a service (SaaS) company Phreesia is notifying over 910,000 people that their personal and health data was exposed in a May breach of its subsidiary ConnectOnCall. [...]
A data breach at an unnamed French hospital exposed the medical records of 750,000 patients after a threat actor gained access to its electronic patient record system. [...]
Mobile medical care firm DocGo confirmed it suffered a cyberattack after threat actors breached its systems and stole patient health data. DocGo is a healthcare provider that offers mobile health services, ambulance services, and remote monitoring for patients in thirty US states and across the United Kingdom.
BetterHelp has agreed to pay $7.8 million in a settlement agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over allegations of misusing and sharing consumer health data for advertising purposes. The data included included email addresses, IP addresses, answers from preliminary health questionnaire during sign-up process, which came with a promise of not disclosing personal health info outside limited purposes, like counseling services.
Non-profit healthcare service provider Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin has disclosed that a ransomware gang breached its network in January and stole documents containing the personal and medical information of over 500,000 individuals. "On February 9, 2024, during our investigation, we discovered indications that the attacker had copied some of GHC-SCW's data, which included protected health information. Our discovery was confirmed when the attacker, a foreign ransomware gang, contacted GHC-SCW claiming responsibility for the attack and stealing our data."